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Description: Translation and interpretation activities in a context of official or institutional multilingualism (where are least two languages are official languages) are the reality of many of the world's countries, but rarely are translation studies scholars brought together to exchange stories about their shared political, institutional, social and cultural experiences. While the topic of translation in multilingual and multicultural contexts has generated considerable intellectual interest of late, conferences and publications have not concentrated discussions exclusively around contexts of official multilingualism. The Scientific Committee suggests the following non-exhaustive list of sub-themes and questions as potential topics for papers: • concepts and definitions: official language, national language, institutional language official translation, institutional translation (Mossop 1988); • legislated multilingualism and translation relation between translation and legislated multilingualism: Is translation legislated? What translation/interpretation is required in the context of legislated multilingualism? What documents must be translated? • the economic costs and benefits of charter translation effects of official multilingualism on translation policy and practice; • effects of legislated translation on official multilingualism; • power dynamic between "legislated" languages (Are the official languages equal under the law?) and its impact on translation; • impact of translation on power dynamic between charter languages/cultures; • official languages versus official minority (e.g., sami and kven in Norway) languages and translation; • officially multilingual states/provinces (e.g., Hawaii) within unilingual countries (United States of America); • translation of legislation (legal status); • training/selection of official translators and interpreters; • official multilingualism and translation in pan-national (European Union) versus national contexts; • official translators, their roles throughout history, in particular, the extent to which they are cultural leaders in contexts of linguistic and cultural plurality tensions between official role as non-partisan mediator and personal agency; • socio-cultural considerations: Does translation serve the humanist ideal of striving to create a common culture (Simon 1996) or does it serve to divide cultures in contexts of official multilingualism? • relationship between a country’s official (national) languages (Is it harmonious or disharmonious and why?) and impact of the relationship on national identity; • the power dynamic between official languages in the real world versus their legal status (ideological considerations) relationship between official and non-official language translation and interpretation; • literature impact of official multilingualism on the literary polysystem(s); • translation of literature(s) between official languages; • effects of legislated translation on the themes and figures of literature (e.g., Poliquin in the Canadian context). Deadline for submission of proposals: 2010-12-15 Contact details: Scientific Committee: Gillian Lane-Mercier, Gillian.lane-mercier@mcgill.ca; Denise Merkle, denise.merkle@umoncton.ca; Reine Meylaerts, reine.meylaerts@arts.kuleuven.be Event website:
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Description: Where literature exists, translation exists. The very notion of literature would be inconceivable without translation. Goethe believed that without outside influences national literatures rapidly stagnate. Authors have always borrowed and been influenced by writers in other languages. The way literary traditions traverse national and cultural borders is a matter for celebration. For example, when Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, he created the form and shape of modern fiction. Cervantes' novel was translated almost immediately into English, where it changed the course of English literature, influencing writers, directly or indirectly, all the way to William Faulkner. Faulkner, in translation, was hugely popular in Latin America during the post-Second World War period. García Márquez was a big fan. His novels were, in turn, translated into English, exerting a major influence on such English-language authors as Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo and Michael Chabon. The entire history of literature is informed by a process of transmission; a great work of literature, indeed any text, is able to enrich itself by generating new meanings as it enters new contexts. Translation could be seen in this perspective as the secret metaphor of all literary communication. Keynote Speakers: David Damrosch (Harvard University), Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) Deadline for submission of proposals: 2010-12-15 Registration deadline: Early bird registration fee (deadline 31 March 2011; this is also the deadline for presenters): AUD$200. Normal registration fee: $250. Students and unemployed: $100 (early bird) or $125. One day registration: $125 (early bird), $150 (normal), $75 (students and unemployed) Contact details: Brian Nelson, Chris Worth arts-aalitra@monash.edu Event website:
Description: Sixth Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics) The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. Our aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world. The conference will be held over 3 days, from 30th June to 2nd July 2011 in Poznan, Poland. We invite papers on the following topics: FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL (i) (comparative) forensic linguistics (ii) forensic phonetics (iii) forensic authorship attribution (iv) forensic stylistic (v) linguists as expert witnesses (vi) linguistic features of forgeries and counterfeits of public documents LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT INTERPRETING (i) legal translation; (ii) court interpreting; (iii) teaching legal translation and court interpreting (iv) certified translators and interpreters in legal proceedings (v) mistranslation and misinterpreting in legal context LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE (i) legal linguistics (ii) history of legal language (iii) legal terminology (iv) legal genres (v) EU legal language (vi) analysis of legal discourse (vii) structure and semantics of statutes and other legal instruments; (viii) development of legal languages (ix) legal and linguistic interpretation of texts formulated in legal language (x) teaching legal language (xi) speech style in the courtroom (xii) comprehensibility of legal instruments (xiii) Plain Language Campaigns (xiv) linguistic aspects of cross-examination (xv) technicality in legal language HISTORY OF LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS (i) history of legal systems (ii) comparative study of legal systems (iii) common law versus civil law countries LAWS ON LANGUAGES (i) language rights (ii) linguistic minorities and linguistic human rights (iii) language and disadvantage before the law Plenary speakers: Prof. Dennis Kurzon from the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Haifa, Israel Prof. Mami Hiraike Okawara from Graduate School of Regional Policy, Takasaki City University of Economics, Japan Prof. Meizhen Liao from the Foreign Language School, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China Prof. Age Lind from Norwegian School Of Economics And Business Administration, Department of Professional and Intercultural Communication, Norway Session proposals and any questions should be submitted to the following address: lingua.legis@gmail.com Registration: In order to register you should submit via e-mail the following data: First Name/Imię: Surname/Nazwisko: University degree/tytuł lub stopień naukowy: Address for Correspondence/adres korespondencyjny: E-mail: Institution/Instytucja wysyłająca: Passport Number/numer paszportu: Do you need an invitation letter/czy potrzebne jest zaproszenie: Data for the invoice including tax identification number or equivalent/Dane do faktury wraz z numerem NIP: Date of the money transfer/Data dokonania przelewu: Other comments (e.g. vegetarian diet, etc.)/inne uwagi: Presentation/referat: Yes/No Tak/Nie Title of the presentation (if applicable)/Tytuł wystąpienia (dla prelegentów wygłaszających referat): Abstract (of 100-200 words) /streszczenie referatu (100-200 słów) The informative abstract (for research paper) should have the following structure (please leave the headings in your abstract): Purpose of the research: Scope of the research: Methods used/Methodology/Approach/Design: Findings: Research limitations/implications Practical implications: Originality/value: Recommendations (if applicable): Key words: The descriptive abstract should have the following structure (please leave the headings in your abstract): Purpose of the research: Scope of the research: Methods used: Recommendations (if applicable): Key words: Presentation slots should not exceed 30 minutes (20 minutes long presentation plus 10 minutes for questions). Power Point presentations are invited (Power Point MS Office 98-2003). Papers from the conference will be published after reviews. Registrations should be submitted to the following address: lingua.legis@gmail.com The abstracts should be sent by the end of February 2011. Abstract acceptance notification: 15 March 2011. Submission of full papers: 30 August 2011. Conference fee: Early payment by 20 March 2011: €150. Payment from 21 March to 20 April 2011: €175. Payment after 21 April or on arrival: €200. The conference fee includes the cost of the conference gala dinner, 3 lunches, tea breaks and publication of papers after reviews. We kindly request you to pay the fee into the following account: Bank Account Details: Adam Mickiewicz University BZ WBK IBAN: PL 77 1090 1362 0000 0000 3601 7903 Swift: WBK PPLPP For: 711 802 your name and surname Note: It is vital that you place on your money transfer the following number: 711 802. No partial registration is envisaged, so it will not be possible to register for just one or two days. We do not accept credit cards. Cancellation policy: In case of cancellations the conference fee is not refunded. LANGUAGES: Polish, English, Spanish, Russian, German and French. Institute of Linguistics Al. Niepodległości 4, Poznań, POLAND lingua.legis@gmail.com Organizational Committee (Laboratory of Legilinguistics): Aleksandra Matulewska, PhD Karolina Kaczmarek, PhD Karolina Gortych, PhD Joanna Grzybek, PhD Swietlana Gaś, PhD Joanna Nowak, MA Jamila Oueslati, MA SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Jerzy Bańczerowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Feliks Zedler, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Aleksandra Matulewska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Keynote Speakers: Deadline for submission of proposals: 2011-02-28 Registration deadline: Contact details: lingua.legis@gmail.com Event website: http://www.lingualegis.amu.edu.pl/
Date: 2011-10-21 Venue: Artesis University College, Antwerp, BelgiumEvent theme(s): Exploring new avenues and new contexts: live subtitling and other respeaking applications for (media) accessibility Final call for papers for the Third international symposium on live subtitling with speech recognition. Description: In the footsteps of the symposia held at Forli on 17 November 2006 and Barcelona on 19 June 2009, the Department of Translators and Interpreters of Artesis University is organising the third international symposium on the use of speech technology software for live subtitling and (media) accessibility. Whereas the first two symposia focused on respeaking for live or real-time intralingual subtitling only, the present one is broadening its scope to the use of speech technology and respeaking in other contexts, such as cultural events, courtrooms, classrooms, distance learning and audiodescription, in addition to live-subtitling for television, the core focus of the symposium series. The purpose of this expanded scope is to introduce new, related, state-of-the-art initiatives in research and practice to each other with a view to investigating interdisciplinary overlaps and joint research interests. We therefore invite contributions dealing with speech-to-text and text-to-speech software development, respeaking techniques in different contexts, the analysis and improvement of the respeaking process and its different stages, the analysis and improvement of the respeaking product, the exploration of new applications, the management of delay in broadcasting, the management of the cognitive respeaking/interpreting load, ... in the context of: • (applied) research into live subtitling with respeaking technology for broadcasting,• (applied) research into the use of respeaking technology for media accessibility and translation in different live contexts,• (applied) research into the interdisciplinary features of respeaking (e.g. its relation to simultaneous interpreting) in all such contexts. A selection of the papers presented at the symposium will be published. Keynote Speakers: Deadline for submission of proposals: 2011-05-30 Registration deadline: Contact details: Abstracts: Abstracts of 500 words (including bibliography)Deadline abstracts: 30 May 2011To be sent to: livesubtitling.symposium@gmail.comEvent website: http://www.respeaking-symposium-antwerp.be
